Amazon's Alexa Crashed in Europe on Christmas Day

29/12/2018

Thanks to the holiday season when Amazon speakers seem to be one of the popular gifting options, the fake Amazon Alexa setup app also managed to climb up the charts. Glam Glitter Series Doll and clothing from Carhartt, among others.

Even though Amazon claims record sales, the company refuses to disclose specific amounts of either sales or Prime subscriptions.

In the USA alone, more than one billion items shipped for free this holiday with Prime - millions of unique items shipped with Prime Free Same-Day, Prime Free One-Day or Free two-hour delivery with Prime Now.

Customers also used Alexa to help them create cocktails. The last Prime Now order was delivered on Christmas Eve at 11:30 p.m., just in time for Santas arrival.

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Customers stacked their online bushels with things from Echo speakers to Calvin Klein garments, agreeing to accept Amazon Prime enrollments, both paid and on a preliminary premise, giving the online retail monster another record-breaking Christmas season. Features: -Correctly setup the device -Take control of the device, with different unique commands, found only on this app If you recently got a new Echo speaker and you'd like to set it up, please be sure to use Amazon's real Alexa app for iOS and not the fake version.

Despite the disruptions and bad press, Alexa was the most popular app in the Apple App Store and Google Play store on Christmas Day, so apparently people are still willing to trust Amazon's service. Mastercard said holiday sales increased 5.1 percent to more than $850 billion this year, the strongest growth in the last six years. Steep rises in the purchase of voice devices, as well as smart home devices like the Amazon-owned Ring and Blink, point to a consumer base that is increasingly adopting voice technologies and the concept of a connected, smart home. The user then wrote on the website of Amazon and addressed that the words of Alexa were a new level of creepy.

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Some Alexa device owners who thought the app called "Setup for Amazon Alexa" was legit even left reviews to express their frustration over the "instability" and "complicated setup" of the app.

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